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Senior Interconnection Manager

Highland Electric Fleets

Job Location:

Beverly, OH - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 150000 - 175000

Posted: 23 August 2026 (3 days ago)

Application Deadline: 20 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets mission is to make electric fleets accessible and affordable for all enabling communities to realize the benefits of cleaner quieter and healthier fleets. Highland is North Americas leading provider of Electrification-as-a-Service (EaaS). Founded in 2019 Highland partners with school districts municipalities and fleet operators to make the transition to electric fleets simple and affordable.

Highland proudly serves as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. From pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology to managing some of the nations largest electric school bus fleets Highland delivers reliable cost-effective solutions that support local communities and drive the future of transportation.

Summary

The Senior Interconnection Manager owns Highlands utility interconnection and new-service program across a large fast-moving portfolio of battery energy storage (BESS) edge compute and EV charging sites. Utility diligence new service applications and utility coordination sit on the critical path to a build-ready site this role is accountable for moving them at portfolio scale and on an aggressive timeline.

The Senior Interconnection Manager serves as Highlands primary interface with electric utilities functionally leads the external partners who perform utility diligence and application work and builds the relationships playbooks and standards that make utility engagement faster and more repeatable across every territory Highland develops is a high-ownership program role. The portfolio is comprised of 100 (and growing) sites in 20 states and major utility partners include ComEd SCE Ameren National Grid NYSEG Idaho Power DTE Entergy and El Paso.

The Sr. Interconnection Manager sets the pace on utility workstreams clears roadblocks with utilities before they threaten project schedules and keeps utility milestones tracking in parallel with design and permitting so that new electrical service is secured when each site needs it.

This position reports to the Vice President Development & Construction with an expectation of approximately 20% travel.

Job Overview:

Own the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highlands development portfolio from early diligence through energized service.
Lead utility diligence to confirm each sites buildability from a utility standpoint available capacity service voltage required upgrades timelines and costs.
Prepare and manage new utility service and interconnection applications driving them through to approval on an aggressive portfolio-wide schedule.
Serve as Highlands primary point of contact with electric utilities managing utility timelines budgets and escalations.
Functionally lead and quality-check the external partners performing utility diligence and application work
Keep utility workstreams tracking in parallel with design and permitting so that utility milestones feed the design packages on time.
Manage rate schedule and tariff selection.
Contribute utility upgrade and service costs to project budgets and support a repeatable unit-cost installation model.
Build and maintain a repository of utility requirements processes and contacts by territory to make each new engagement faster.
Develop relationships and standardized interconnection playbooks with the utilities Highland works with most.

Qualifications:

Required

Bachelors degree or 8 years of directly related professional experience.
Substantial experience working with electric utilities interconnection new service requests and service upgrades on the developer customer or utility side.
Program or portfolio management experience coordinating many concurrent projects and external partners.
Demonstrated ability to move utility applications and approvals forward on aggressive timelines.
Demonstrated experience negotiating phased or partial interconnection agreements with utilities.

Preferred

Experience with utility interconnection for distributed energy resources (BESS solar) or large commercial/industrial electrical loads.
Exposure to EV charging edge compute/data center power or renewable energy development.
Familiarity with interconnection standards and utility processes (e.g. IEEE 1547 utility tariffs and state interconnection rules).
Experience working alongside permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and engineering consultants.
Prior experience at or embedded with an electric utility; PMP or equivalent certification.

$150000 - $175000 a year

What You Can Expect from Highland:

Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
A supportive highly collaborative team-oriented environment
Ability to work with bright innovative and forward-thinking colleagues
Health Vision and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
Generous Paid Time Off
401(k) program and company match

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or addition to federal law requirements Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Manager

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